Blessing, a Way of Life

Workshop Number

Leader(s)

Judy

Brutz

Audience

Who may register:

Adult Only (high school with permission)

full-time attenders only

Time breakdown

Experiential Activities:

60%

Lecture:

Discussion:

10%

Description

Short Description:

Quiet retreat. Explore and experience blessing. Expect silent worship, journaling, artistic expression, being with Nature and blessing God, people, animals and each other. Bring your journal, artistic materials and maybe your running shoes.

Long Description:

What is Blessing? Where does it come from? Where does it go? How do we give and receive Blessing?

We will use a retreat format - as we meet together we will experience a flowing of worship in the silence, individual space for processing and sharing circles.

Please bring your journals, materials for artistic expression and perhaps your running shoes. Personal processing may take you outside to be with Nature, to walk a labyrinth, journal or run. Experience the possibility of Blessing.

In preparation for being in retreat, you may find helful "Map: The Blessing Path," August, 2007 at www.spiritualityandpractice.com. "The Map" offers short readings.

Also check out my website www.judybrutz.net; my blog at www.committoblessing.blogspot.com.

For further reading:
"Blessing, The Art and the Practice" by Pierre Pradervand; "Filling Words with Light" by Lawrence Kushner; "The Gentle Art of Blessing, Lessons for living your spirituality in everyday life" by David Spangler; "Kinship with All Life" by J. Allen Boone; "My Grandfather's Blessings, Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging" by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.; The Bible and other sacred texts.

Leader Experience:

I have led interactive workshops and retreats for over 35 years with Friends and people of other faiths as well as in secular settings. I set up the situation so that each person may call forth their own spiritual discernment and then may share with the group the openings they experience.